Deleting spam unread only keeps spamming cheap for the spammers. Ruin their profit margin by spidering the URLs they post in their messages a few times before you delete the message.
Don't DOS, thats unethical, just load the page a few times to increase the cost of spamming.
If the anti-spammer community would do this simple thing, spaming would become unprofitable.
Re:Spamming != bulk mailings
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Thus, he is offloading the cost of doing business to the people who are receiving the email.
So fix the problem. Quit deleting spam unread. Go to the website and download all the images. Write a script to do it automaticly.
Don't abuse the site, just act as if you were a customer and make him pay a fair price for the spam. If all anti-spammers would do this simple thing, spam would become unprofitable.
Re:Profit on selling customer list?
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To the user they offer 'advanced' spam fighting tools
*advanced* tools? For god's sake, they just recently gave their users the ability to alphabetize their mail!
Re:Why do people do this?
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As someone with an AOL address from over 10 years ago (I know, I know, but its a cheap backup, just in case), I can tell you exactly how AOL's antispam features work.
They don't.
I check that address every couple of weeks and regularly have to clean out over 300 messages.
If cars loose a large percentage of their value before significant wear occurs, its probably mostly because the people who buy new cars place a large value on the car being 'new' rather than 'new to them'. Some people just gotta be first.
I agree re the value of buying new cars. I bought one once, big mistake. I only buy late-model used now. Actually at the moment two of my cars are over 30 years old. Gotta replace a part once in a while, but at least I can do it without six special wrenches, diagnostic computer and a shoehorn.
I really don't see total information awareness as a bad thing, its just a logical use of our increasing technology. What we need is to make sure that places that are private stay that way (ie, make it illegal to snoop inside private residences without a warrant etc), and that we never attempt to convict people on what we think they are likely to do (within reason).
If they do it right, total information awareness will simply be much more efficent use of the information that is now available, but that we don't have the manpower to collect and analize. Citizens who wish not to expose details of their lives to scrutney will need to plug their information leaks.
Think of the total information awarness program as a hacker with a sniffer, if you want stuff private, you damn well better not leave it hanging out where anyone who cares to look can see it.
A particular species of mosquito can carry a parasite that modifies the mosquitos sperm such that the sperm can only fertilize a female that also carries the parasite. This results in two distinct breeding groups within the species in the same environment, and over the course of many generations can lead to a speciation event (one species diverging into two).
Hmm, I wonder how long it will be after those switches are identified that someone gets the bright idea to activate them in some chimps and turn them off in some humans and see what they grow into.
they're still swinging in trees. Humans are reaching for the starts
Well, a very few humans are reaching for the stars. Most of humanity spends its time trying not to starve, while the rest of us do our best to ignore those who are starving. Not that thats bad, I'm just saying that generalizing humanity into some great thing is kind of silly. If you were a chimp you'd probably think those hairless freaks were stupid to live inside and eat processed food, missing out on Real Life.
I guess one of the main things is that you can mail order firearms
Most gunshops and many shooting ranges are happy to receive your mail order firearms for you, for a small fee (unless you are a good customer, then its free).
My intent is that a person who doesn't know Ada at all, who has had maybe a single Pascal course (and who speaks English), will be able to understand my programs because of the choice of names, structures, and constructs.
Excellent! I love coming across code that has been written that way (and try to do so myself as often as possible). Often I find that choosing names for things is one of the the hardest parts of getting a good design. Probably an indicator that I need to study more design patterns:)
In Ada, I'll write the code, look at it, realize that it says what it does, and not need to write comments.
I think this has a lot to do with proficency in a language. It might be clear to you because 1) you wrote it and 2) you are so proficent in the language that, to you, it reads like plain English (or whatever you happen to speak).
Pity the guy who comes along next to maintain your code. He may not know the language as well, and might not think the say way you do, so your lack of comments will make his job harder.
The best coders don't just turn out working stuff, they turn out working stuff that other people can use and maintain with a minimum of effort.
Documentation? You document your source files? My comments explain what the code is *supposed* to be doing, and if necessary, why it does it that way. If you want to know what is *actually* doing, read the code.
I generally run around 1:3 comment line to non-trivial code line ratio. Most people find that excessive, but I find it helps with maintainability. When I come back to a routine in 6 months because a user has reported a bug, I can scan the comments to get a very quick idea of what is going on. I find bugs much faster that way, and I always update the comments to reflect what the code is doing.
There are plenty of other nasty things that can also be transmitted via such contact.
Also, its not uncommon for people to vomit during cpr, and they generally don't make a point of waiting until you are clear.
Re:More to transactions than number of coins.
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On purchases over 5 bucks I couldn't really care less what the fractional dollar part is, it isn't worth my time to wait for it.
If I was still delivering pizzas to pay for my course books I'd care, but not now. Give my change to the poor student behind me in line.
Re:The quarter is hard enough
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When I was in school I delivered pizza in a small town in south Texas. The average income around there was barely above minimum wage, and closely match the average IQ. People around there though you were some kind of walking computer when you could tell them their change from a 20 without evena pause. And they never checked. Now, I'm an honest guy, but someother people working there would regularly make 'mistakes' on change, such that they'd bump their tips up by half to three-quarters of a dollar on every delivery, and almost noone would catch on. That doesn't sound like much, but after 30-40 deliveries on a good night they could be up 30 bucks in a few hours, which is pretty significant when the hourly wage is under 6 bucks.
I agree re $n.95 (or cars for just 19999.99', but taxes still need to be broken out, at least on the receipt, so the typical math-impared consumer can understand that n dollars of their purchase was taxes.
A sandwich shop where I occasionally eat lunch sets up their prices on combos (drink, chips and sandwich) such that the change is never in a denomination smaller than a quarter (change almost always comes to either 25, 50 or 75 cents). Its very convienant, particularly after I've just been to the post office and have a pocket full of dollar coins and quarters, I can pay for lunch without those annoying paper bills.
In fact, most states have "Good Samaratin" laws which are specifically designed to protect anyone attempting to save someone else's life against prosecution
Even more fun, in many places, failure to render aid is illegal. IANAL, but I'm sure those laws include some kind of provision for reasonable risk. Of course with HIV and whatnot running around, I wonder if one could make a case for not performing CPR because one did not have protective equipment?
It is also plausible that the whole idea of humans as 'batteries' is simply a 'red herring' to through humans off the real course of why they are kept around.
Hmm, humans in the real world started using some kind of neural interface to a network that reached critical mass and spawned an emergent intellegence that is completely dependent upon having humans connected to the network via said interfaces and can operate individiual humans as appendages. By walling off the concious part of each human mind and creating for it an interconnected virtual reality, said intelligence is able to operate in the real world as a single collective conciousness without the threat of humans disconnecting from the network, which would lessen it. By creating the fiction of the matrix it can keep its human 'cells' happy, and by having multiple layers it increases its security.
In most cases, I don't believe a man's self esteem will allow him to read a book for a year and say afterwards "That was a load of crap"
Does this apply to series? I read that decology by L. Ron Hubbard (no, i didn't pay for it) and when I finally finished it, I can quite honestly say 'That was a load of crap'. Mostly its just embarasing to admit to having read it all, but its kind of like watching the movie 'Terror Vision' or 'Creepizoids', you just kinda have to finish it out of morbid curiosity.
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Thats the Gap. Mind the dragon.
Deleting spam unread only keeps spamming cheap for the spammers. Ruin their profit margin by spidering the URLs they post in their messages a few times before you delete the message.
Don't DOS, thats unethical, just load the page a few times to increase the cost of spamming.
If the anti-spammer community would do this simple thing, spaming would become unprofitable.
Thus, he is offloading the cost of doing business to the people who are receiving the email.
So fix the problem. Quit deleting spam unread. Go to the website and download all the images. Write a script to do it automaticly.
Don't abuse the site, just act as if you were a customer and make him pay a fair price for the spam. If all anti-spammers would do this simple thing, spam would become unprofitable.
To the user they offer 'advanced' spam fighting tools
*advanced* tools? For god's sake, they just recently gave their users the ability to alphabetize their mail!
As someone with an AOL address from over 10 years ago (I know, I know, but its a cheap backup, just in case), I can tell you exactly how AOL's antispam features work.
They don't.
I check that address every couple of weeks and regularly have to clean out over 300 messages.
Now drop your drawers and bend over
I'll plug my own leaks, thanks.
If cars loose a large percentage of their value before significant wear occurs, its probably mostly because the people who buy new cars place a large value on the car being 'new' rather than 'new to them'. Some people just gotta be first.
I agree re the value of buying new cars. I bought one once, big mistake. I only buy late-model used now. Actually at the moment two of my cars are over 30 years old. Gotta replace a part once in a while, but at least I can do it without six special wrenches, diagnostic computer and a shoehorn.
I really don't see total information awareness as a bad thing, its just a logical use of our increasing technology. What we need is to make sure that places that are private stay that way (ie, make it illegal to snoop inside private residences without a warrant etc), and that we never attempt to convict people on what we think they are likely to do (within reason).
If they do it right, total information awareness will simply be much more efficent use of the information that is now available, but that we don't have the manpower to collect and analize. Citizens who wish not to expose details of their lives to scrutney will need to plug their information leaks.
Think of the total information awarness program as a hacker with a sniffer, if you want stuff private, you damn well better not leave it hanging out where anyone who cares to look can see it.
Interesting trivia:
A particular species of mosquito can carry a parasite that modifies the mosquitos sperm such that the sperm can only fertilize a female that also carries the parasite. This results in two distinct breeding groups within the species in the same environment, and over the course of many generations can lead to a speciation event (one species diverging into two).
Hmm, I wonder how long it will be after those switches are identified that someone gets the bright idea to activate them in some chimps and turn them off in some humans and see what they grow into.
they're still swinging in trees. Humans are reaching for the starts
Well, a very few humans are reaching for the stars. Most of humanity spends its time trying not to starve, while the rest of us do our best to ignore those who are starving. Not that thats bad, I'm just saying that generalizing humanity into some great thing is kind of silly. If you were a chimp you'd probably think those hairless freaks were stupid to live inside and eat processed food, missing out on Real Life.
I guess one of the main things is that you can mail order firearms
Most gunshops and many shooting ranges are happy to receive your mail order firearms for you, for a small fee (unless you are a good customer, then its free).
lose too much in depreciation
Seems that the car would be worth more when you sell it if it will last longer, so this would be a good thing for people that like to trade often.
My intent is that a person who doesn't know Ada at all, who has had maybe a single Pascal course (and who speaks English), will be able to understand my programs because of the choice of names, structures, and constructs.
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Excellent! I love coming across code that has been written that way (and try to do so myself as often as possible). Often I find that choosing names for things is one of the the hardest parts of getting a good design. Probably an indicator that I need to study more design patterns
It's a shame because VB actually works quite well for a particular niche- quickly developing business apps
If thats your reason for using VB, you'd probably be better of with Delphi/Kylix, unless you absolutely have to have something Microsoft.
Speaking of. I've been meaning to learn some python, but I'll need a tolerable IDE. Does one exist?
In Ada, I'll write the code, look at it, realize that it says what it does, and not need to write comments.
I think this has a lot to do with proficency in a language. It might be clear to you because 1) you wrote it and 2) you are so proficent in the language that, to you, it reads like plain English (or whatever you happen to speak).
Pity the guy who comes along next to maintain your code. He may not know the language as well, and might not think the say way you do, so your lack of comments will make his job harder.
The best coders don't just turn out working stuff, they turn out working stuff that other people can use and maintain with a minimum of effort.
that's what documentation is for.
Documentation? You document your source files? My comments explain what the code is *supposed* to be doing, and if necessary, why it does it that way. If you want to know what is *actually* doing, read the code.
I generally run around 1:3 comment line to non-trivial code line ratio. Most people find that excessive, but I find it helps with maintainability. When I come back to a routine in 6 months because a user has reported a bug, I can scan the comments to get a very quick idea of what is going on. I find bugs much faster that way, and I always update the comments to reflect what the code is doing.
There are plenty of other nasty things that can also be transmitted via such contact.
Also, its not uncommon for people to vomit during cpr, and they generally don't make a point of waiting until you are clear.
On purchases over 5 bucks I couldn't really care less what the fractional dollar part is, it isn't worth my time to wait for it.
If I was still delivering pizzas to pay for my course books I'd care, but not now. Give my change to the poor student behind me in line.
When I was in school I delivered pizza in a small town in south Texas. The average income around there was barely above minimum wage, and closely match the average IQ. People around there though you were some kind of walking computer when you could tell them their change from a 20 without evena pause. And they never checked. Now, I'm an honest guy, but someother people working there would regularly make 'mistakes' on change, such that they'd bump their tips up by half to three-quarters of a dollar on every delivery, and almost noone would catch on. That doesn't sound like much, but after 30-40 deliveries on a good night they could be up 30 bucks in a few hours, which is pretty significant when the hourly wage is under 6 bucks.
I agree re $n.95 (or cars for just 19999.99', but taxes still need to be broken out, at least on the receipt, so the typical math-impared consumer can understand that n dollars of their purchase was taxes.
A sandwich shop where I occasionally eat lunch sets up their prices on combos (drink, chips and sandwich) such that the change is never in a denomination smaller than a quarter (change almost always comes to either 25, 50 or 75 cents). Its very convienant, particularly after I've just been to the post office and have a pocket full of dollar coins and quarters, I can pay for lunch without those annoying paper bills.
In fact, most states have "Good Samaratin" laws which are specifically designed to protect anyone attempting to save someone else's life against prosecution
Even more fun, in many places, failure to render aid is illegal. IANAL, but I'm sure those laws include some kind of provision for reasonable risk. Of course with HIV and whatnot running around, I wonder if one could make a case for not performing CPR because one did not have protective equipment?
It is also plausible that the whole idea of humans as 'batteries' is simply a 'red herring' to through humans off the real course of why they are kept around.
Hmm, humans in the real world started using some kind of neural interface to a network that reached critical mass and spawned an emergent intellegence that is completely dependent upon having humans connected to the network via said interfaces and can operate individiual humans as appendages. By walling off the concious part of each human mind and creating for it an interconnected virtual reality, said intelligence is able to operate in the real world as a single collective conciousness without the threat of humans disconnecting from the network, which would lessen it. By creating the fiction of the matrix it can keep its human 'cells' happy, and by having multiple layers it increases its security.
In most cases, I don't believe a man's self esteem will allow him to read a book for a year and say afterwards "That was a load of crap"
Does this apply to series? I read that decology by L. Ron Hubbard (no, i didn't pay for it) and when I finally finished it, I can quite honestly say 'That was a load of crap'. Mostly its just embarasing to admit to having read it all, but its kind of like watching the movie 'Terror Vision' or 'Creepizoids', you just kinda have to finish it out of morbid curiosity.